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Friday, August 25, 2006

Oh, Lucy ...

For those just tuning in, Jason Kenney is Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Parliamentary Secretary and (let's be honest here) the de facto Deputy Prime Minister and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. Kenney is also the Conservative MP who calls anyone associating (or standing sort of close to even) with anyone who is pro-Hezbollah to be apologists for terrorists.

As far as I can tell, for consistency's sake, it would seem that, it is either wrong for Members of Parliament to even talk about talking to a group listed as a terrorist organization, or it is conceivable, that "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter."

A: grabbing a megaphone on your way to work (on the steps of the Canadian Parliament) and saying a couple of words in favour of human rights in Iran. Finding out later that the group (operating in Canada with impunity for some reason) has ties to a terrorist group.

B: Traveling to a region of a foreign country controlled by terrorists to sympathize with *known* terrorists.

A photograph of Kenney at an April rally, organized by the Committee in Defense of Human Rights in Iran, (photo then) appears on the website of the National Council of Resistance of Iran...

Who else was at the rally? Can't imagine LibDippers letting the Cons take the stage in a Human rights Rally.

No word from the top yet, hmmmm that suggests 1) PMSH is letting the left make this an issue, and then will produce names of all the Lib & Dipper MPs there too2) Best to deal with this once the left has flung all the mud, waiting to then set the story straight with facts3) There is no defense for stupidity